The pie chart below shows the percentage of our home electricity consumption which came from each source.

Source of domestic electricity May-July 2016

We are still experimenting with the best time of day to charge our Twizy which also has a 6kWh battery. The aim is to ensure that any excess solar (which Bert can’t absorb fast enough) gets used to charge the Twizy rather than exported to the grid. When there is no excess solar (or even enough to charge Bert), then we are trying to ensure that the Twizy doesn’t completely drain Bert. The two 6kWh batteries are definitely in direct competition – one to store solar energy for our domestic use later in the day and the other to store solar energy to take us places. It leaves us bemused as to how the model of using one’s electric vehicle battery as a back up domestic store would work. That would certainly give rise to conflicts – either cook supper here or have enough juice in your vehicle battery to drive for supper elsewhere!